American Policy and Future.

What is America coming to? Why is it like this? Do we really have a democracy?

Simple questions, right? Well let me tell you.

America is in a new state for our future. We've had a woman run for president, an African-American run for president. All in the same elections! 2 groups of people who just 50 years ago didn't really have any voting power nor a chance at public office. Now, they are running for President, the highest office in our country, and they actually have a legit chance at winning. If not this year, then in the near future. Our future is going to only get better (aside from the economy), so we need to just focus on the current events and try to appease them the best we can. Eventually everything is bound to get better, right?

Not so fast. America is in the largest debt in nation history, and all with no end in sight. What are we doing to fix it? We are going to war, continuously buying resources from other countries that we have here at home. The government is currently debating for us to start drilling in America seeing as how we have enough oil to power our country for 40 years. Why not do it while we find an alternative fuel supply? It won't hurt us really and will help ween us off the tit of other countries making us independent. Things are only going to get better in this aspect (economics) of the country unless we start relying on our own resources while we find artificial resources.

In my Federal Government class I read ahead and found out that of all the democracies in the world America has the lowest voting turnout of all of them because of multiple reasons.
1) They automatically register their citizens when they reach 18, while America requires the people to do it by themselves.
2) They have Election Day. Meaning that on that day each year there is no work and the citizens are able to vote on that day without having to worry about anything else.
3) Everyone is just more active and more in-tune with what's going on.
We need to fix this for ourselves. just because we don't have an "Election Day", does not mean that we can't go out and vote.

This Generation is the one that decides the fate of the country. Where will you be?